Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Greenwell was killed when Avro Lancaster I DV375 VN-E of 50 Squadron was forced to ditch in the North Sea when returning from a mission to Berlin. The Lancaster came down some 40 miles due east of Great Yarmouth. At 02.20 hours the rear gunner, Sgt. Groves, R.A.A.F., was picked up by a Royal Navy destroyer, but the other six crew lost their lives.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 440
Also killed in the same incident was F/Off. H. Mordue
Acknowledgments to John Jones who has provided the hyperlink to the story of the crash.
John Greenwell is remembered at Cramlington on C60.03
